Major international writers take on some contested issues around the idea of ‘a world literature’: Is globalization changing what and how we read? Does world lit spread on the back of “universal human values” – or is it propelled by marketing and the internet? What of the crushingly dominant role of English? What power does translation have? And, what literary writing is falling between the cracks, but shouldn’t?

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